Word: impiously
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From New York's impious Daily News...
...meeting in The Bronx last month, Soviet Delegate Gromyko proposed that the Security Council meet on Good Friday, was voted down. In Paris last week Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed that the peace conference adjourn for May 1, high point in the Red devotional year. His (Communistically) impious colleagues overruled...
...weekly that ventured in its innocence to express its hope that an American President might be reelected. The comment led almost to an international incident. 'How dare a British paper try to influence the highly intelligent citizens of the great republic?' And in that cry against the impious, none was more loud than the isolationist press, Anglophobe and Russophobe...
...young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed...
...colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...